520iLevel - How much damage do you do??

So I'm sitting at 520 (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...erous/advanced) and was running an LFR when someone said in the raid that I should be doing more damage. Maybe so..maybe not. Got me thinking what others people damage output at this iLevel is. Since hearing the comment, I've been reforging like mad and trying different reforges and gemming so please ignore the mega haste build I've got in there now. I've not tried it yet but I'm missing a ton of +ints since just about everything has the +320 haste gem.

So I'm sitting at 520 (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...erous/advanced) and was running an LFR when someone said in the raid that I should be doing more damage. Maybe so..maybe not. Got me thinking what others people damage output at this iLevel is. Since hearing the comment, I've been reforging like mad and trying different reforges and gemming so please ignore the mega haste build I've got in there now. I've not tried it yet but I'm missing a ton of +ints since just about everything has the +320 haste gem.

These questions come up all the time and are all equally pointless, I'm afraid. Asking how much dps you should be doing at any point can never be answered by someone because it has so many variables - trinkets, stats, racials, encounter type, raid dps and encounter length, tricks, stormlash, etc. The only way to check if you are where you should be is to run Simcraft on yourself and other raiders in your group.

So I'm sitting at 520 (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...erous/advanced) and was running an LFR when someone said in the raid that I should be doing more damage. Maybe so..maybe not. Got me thinking what others people damage output at this iLevel is. Since hearing the comment, I've been reforging like mad and trying different reforges and gemming so please ignore the mega haste build I've got in there now. I've not tried it yet but I'm missing a ton of +ints since just about everything has the +320 haste gem.

Also, you shouldn't worry about howmuch people in dungeon/raidfinder tell you you should. Some people get jealous when you outdps them, as clearly shown in the log. And then they come up with stuff to make themself feel better (like it's only your gear and you should do better, or the famous: if i had your gear i'd kick you ass lalala).

For the rest: What Evralia said.

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Thanks for the info Ridcully...didn't know that existed...very cool indeed!

Tryana...agreed! I'm not soft skinned or any of that nonsense but still...ya never can tell if you're doing as well as you should. My GOD..especially this tier...damn crit/haste/mastery/reforges/blah blah blah! :P

your jinrokh parse is really on the lower side. horridon as well but it looks like you are simply not shadowburn cleaving from the adds to the boss at all. I don't know what you are doing wrong but yes you should do significantly more than you are doing atm.

Comparing you to my guildie who also plays a destro lock, you are in similar gear (he has 2 more ilvls, 4set, mastery reforge in that LFR run, legendary meta, but at least the same trinkets) but have rather different spell use (and your dps is way lower on Jin'rokh). Comparebot lists the difference in damage breakdown nicely. As a shadow priest, I'd say it might be a good idea to use the talent that allows you to move while casting (I so wish I had that) and improve your dot uptime (and doing the legendary quest line for the meta and extra socket in weapon might give some benefit too). But I obviously have no clue about locks. Anyway, I hope the comparison link helps. :>

IMHO wol really isn't the best reference for dps, especially in this patch. With all the padders and trinket 'abusers', it's starting to loose it's usefulness. I tend to look at it this way: as long as you manage to be on pair with your guildies in your current progress, you're doing fine. Don't try to compare yourself with full heroic geared padders on wol.